Podcasts about revolutionary black workers

In this episode we interview Austin McCoy to discuss his piece “'Disorganize the State': The Black Workers Congress's Visions of Abolition-Democracy in the 1970's", which Austin wrote for the Labor and Employment Relations Association's publication A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within.  Austin McCoy is a historian of the 20th Century United States with specializations in African American History, labor, and cultural history.  He is currently working on two books:   The Quest for Democracy: Black Power, New Left, and Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Midwest and a cultural and personal history of De La Soul. The conversation allows us to once again return to the current of radical anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-racist labor organizing that emanated from organizations like DRUM (the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement), the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and - the focus of McCoy's essay - the Black Workers Congress.  In this episode we talk about the BWC's radical vision, which McCoy describes as in the tradition of what W.E.B. Du Bois called “abolition democracy.” And we discuss some of the organizing history of the various individuals and organizations associated with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as well as what happened to their vision over time.  We recorded this discussion on December 18th of 2023 so while we discuss the solidarity that these revolutionary Black organizers had with Palestinians and discuss the UAW's ceasefire call and their proposal to examine divestment, there are some notes that are important to add as we release this discussion almost a year later (a delay that is entirely my fault).  The UAW has endorsed Kamala Harris despite her role in the genocide of Palestinians and her refusal to call for an arms embargo and they did so with no concessions whatsoever on that issue. This stance by the UAW in this moment in many ways reflects the very currents of racist and imperialist union organizing that groups like the League and the BWC were organizing against. So while we can talk about the folks within the UAW who organized for those statements and resolutions within their union as operating within the traditions we discuss in this episode, it is important to note - at least in my view - that the UAW as a whole has ultimately shunned that radical legacy and replicated the historical role of the labor aristocracy in this moment as they and other major unions in the US have done over and over again.  Nonetheless, I do think that it is important to not dismiss the power or potential of labor organizing in moments like this, even if that potential remains unfulfilled. I think about the lessons that Stefano Harney and Fred Moten pull from people like General Baker when they called us to “wildcat the totality” several years ago.  I'd like to send much appreciation to Austin McCoy for this discussion. If you would like to support our work please become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links and related or referenced discussions: Our two part conversation with Herb Boyd about this period and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (Part 1, Part 2)  "Finally Got the News" (film about the League) Some archival documents related to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (visit FreedomArchives.org for more)  Our discussion with J. Moufawad-Paul on "Economism" which deals with some of the imperialist and racist trends within the labor movement (and within Communist or Socialist approaches to organizing the labor movement within empire at various times). 

We sit down with Jerome Scott, former Detroit Auto worker and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to learn about Black working-class radicalizing during the Vietnam War and Detroit uprisings and to get advice on directions for the revolutionary movement today.

Episode 131:This week we're continuing with Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin.You can find the book here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book[Part 1 - 4]Post-Scarcity AnarchismEcology and Revolutionary Thought[Part 5 - 8]Towards a Liberatory Technology[Part 9 - 10]The Forms of Freedom-The Mediation of Social Relations[Part 11 - This Week]Listen, Marxist! - 0:29-The Historical Limits of Marxism - 11:15[Part 12 - 15]Listen, Marxist!Footnotes:38) 7:23These lines were written when the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) exercised a great deal of influence in SDS. Although the PLP has now lost most of its influence in the student movement, the organization still provides a good example of the mentality and values prevalent in the Old Left. The above characterization is equally valid for most Marxist-Leninist groups, hence this passage and other references to the PLP have not been substantially altered. 39) 8:19The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, part of the Detroit-based League of Revolutionary Black Workers.40) 12:34Marxism is above all a theory of praxis, or to place this relationship in its correct perspective, a praxis of theory. This is the very meaning of Marx's transformation of dialectics, which took it from the subjective dimension (to which the Young Hegelians still tried to confine Hegel's outlook) into the objective, from philosophical critique into social action. If theory and praxis become divorced, Marxism is not killed, it commits suicide. This is its most admirable and noble feature. The attempts of the cretins who follow in Marx's wake to keep the system alive with a patchwork of emendations, exegesis, and half-assed “scholarship” à la Maurice Dobb and George Novack are degrading insults to Marx's name and a disgusting pollution of everything he stood for. 41) 14:41In fact Marxists do very little talking about the “chronic [economic] crisis of capitalism” these days—despite the fact that this concept forms the focal point of Marx's economic theories.Citations:28) 5:05Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” in Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 2, p. 318

In this episode we interview Dr. Mary Helen Washington. Mary Helen Washington is an accomplished African-American literary scholar and the editor and author of many books including Midnight Birds and Black-eyed Susans: Stories by and about Black Women, Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960, Memories of Kin, and the book we focus on in this discussion on The Other Blacklist: The African-American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s. Mary Helen Washington is also a  Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She previously served as the president of the American Studies Association. Washington worked for many years developing Black Studies programs, including in Detroit where she has stated she was “part of the ground troops helping in the activities of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), an”I offshoot of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.” In this conversation we specifically focus on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks prior to her joining the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960's, within the Black cultural and literary left that Washington analyzes in The Other Blacklist.  Mary Helen Washington situates Brooks within this Black cultural milieu as a member of the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and as someone who was connected and had relationships to Black communists, and other communists and progressives as well as to cultural institutions and magazines of the Popular Front. Washington highlights Brooks' attentiveness to working class concerns and critiques of racism both interpersonally and institutionally in her writing as far back as the 1940's. She also highlights Brooks' work in dialogue with critiques reflected by other communist and progressive Black women of her era, including Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Childress. In doing so, Washington argues that Brooks' work offers early blueprints for Black Left Feminism operating within her poetry, essays and her novel Maud Martha. The discussion is also firmly attentive to the racial politics and the anticommunism of the 1950's, in which racially radical or progressive analyses were automatically cause for suspicion, surveillance, and potentially repression.  Additionally, Mary Helen Washington talks about other important figures from her book The Other Blacklist including other communist and leftwing Black figures of the 1950's including visual artist Charles White, and authors Lloyd Brown, Alice Childress, and Frank London Brown. We want to thank all of the patrons who support our show. We are funded solely by our listeners and patrons. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month or 10.80 per year at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.  

This is the 3rd session of Journalism for Liberation and Combat. This session is hosted by Too Black. Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, producer of The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast, and host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media. He is based in Indianapolis, IN. This session focuses on The League of Revolutionary Black Workers newspaper work as a living example and case study for the examination of emancipatory journalism. In this episode Too Black breaks down comparisons of The South End under the editorship of John Watson in comparison with the coverage of the same events by The Detroit Free Press. This juxtaposition illuminates the possibilities of emancipatory journalism in practice. Shout out to Austin McCoy for sharing examples of articles from The South End with us for this presentation. Too Black also discusses the work he and his co-hosts do over at the Black Myths Podcast and the process they use to engage and debunk popular myths. Finally Too Black touches on methods of corporate counterinsurgency. Too Black's presentation is followed by a Q&A from the Journalism for Liberation and Combat course participants. In the Q&A Brooke Terpstra from Oakland Abolition and Solidarity and I begin a conversation with Too Black about prisons and profit that we continue during an episode of IMIXWHATILIKE that came out this past Monday March 28th.  There's a brief introductory conversation by Brooke and me. As we ground the discussion within the overall context of the Journalism for Liberation and Combat seminar series. All of the Journalism for Liberation and Combat sessions have video versions as well and you can find those on Black Power Media, we'll provide a link to the playlist with all four sessions in the show notes. This particular session has a decent length powerpoint presentation with examples of articles from The South End so it is beneficial to watch it over on BPM. If you like the work that we do here at MAKC all of our work is solely funded by our listeners so please become a patron of the show, you can do that for as little as $1 a month over at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. Check out and support: Black Myths Podcast (show, patreon) The Last Dope Intellectual (show, patreon) Oakland Abolition and Solidarity Black Power Media (channel, patreon)

Second of a double podcast episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s, in conversation with Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit and former member of the group, and Dan Georgakas, author of Detroit I Do Mind Dying. This podcast is only possible because of support from our listeners on patreon. Join us and get access to exclusive content at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory This is an improved, extended and partially re-recorded version of our podcast episode 12. We have added more audio clips from other members of the League, including General Baker, Mitch and Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell. We have also added narrative for additional detail, context and to tell the story in a more cohesive manner. Whether you listened to the original episode or not, we hope you enjoy it! Get hold of Dan and Herb's books on these links: – Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution – https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9781608462216 – Herb Boyd, Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination – https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780062346636 More information, sources, acknowledgements and more on the webpage for this episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

Talking Smart returns after a brief hiatus; Steve Dodd and Greg Hynes offer their verdict on the first year of the Biden administration and what it's meant to the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers. Then, meet Tina Turner Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell, and Debra Hall, the new hosts of Holla for Labor on KMUZ's Willamette Wake Up show in Oregon. Next, two episodes focus on Detroit: from Working Class History, Herb Boyd on the formation of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and on America Works, Henrietta Ivey's description of the pain and pride involved in her work as a home healthcare professional is amazingly poignant and affecting. Finally, the ever brilliantly original Art and Labor podcast's discussion of how art worker organizing fits into an unorthodox place within the broader sphere of labor organizing.  Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @smartunionworks @kmuz885 @wrkclasshistory @librarycongress @ArtandLaborPod Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Patrick Dixon and Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

On this week's show, we bring you the first half of a two-part series featuring some amazing speakers from the 2nd Annual Community Research Expo presented by Louisville's Root Cause Research Center on February 26, 2022. You'll hear the keynote speaker, Jerome Scott, a founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, who serves on Move to Amend's National Leadership Team, and on the National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum. He is active in Grassroots Global Justice and other social justice movement organizations, including the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. He was a founding member and former director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide in Atlanta, GA. Jerome has also written numerous chapters and articles on race, class, movement building and the revolutionary process, and is a contributing editor to four popular education toolkits including The Roots of Terror and Today's Globalization. He was co-recipient of the American Sociological Association's 2004 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. More at https://www.rootcauseresearch.org/cre2022 On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's Forward Radio 106.5fm and http://forwardradio.org

Double podcast episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s, in conversation with Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit and former member of the group, and Dan Georgakas, author of Detroit I Do Mind Dying. This podcast is only possible because of support from our listeners on patreon. Join us and get access to exclusive content at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory This is an improved, extended and partially re-recorded version of our podcast episode 12. We have added more audio clips from other members of the League, including General Baker, Mitch and Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell. We have also added narrative for additional detail, context and to tell the story in a more cohesive manner. Whether you listened to the original episode or not, we hope you enjoy it! Get hold of Dan and Herb's books on these links: – Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution – https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9781608462216 – Herb Boyd, Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination – https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780062346636 More information, sources, acknowledgements and more on the webpage for this episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

Part two of our discussion on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.Brandon also explores the ideologies of Anarcho-Stalinism and Marxism-Bidenism.Drop us a line: carsandcomrades@gmail.comFollow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/https://twitter.com/CarsAndComradeshttps://www.facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Podcast-101908671824034 https://www.hexbear.net/u/CarsAndComradesAll music from the free album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanalandSources: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dyingFinally Got The NewsBlack Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnick https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061656124/viewer#page/2/mode/2upThe Political Line of the Motor City Labor League (M-L) https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/mcll-1/intro.htmDying From the Inside: The Decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8n44mvhcdr2ZWY4MDhhZmYtYzEwYy00NmJhLTkzMWYtM2U5YTYxMjIwZmU0/view?hl=en

Part one of our discussion on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.Drop us a line: carsandcomrades@gmail.comFollow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/https://twitter.com/CarsAndComradeshttps://www.facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Podcast-101908671824034 https://www.hexbear.net/u/CarsAndComradesAll music from the free album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanalandSources: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dyingFinally Got The NewsBlack Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnick https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061656124/viewer#page/2/mode/2upThe Political Line of the Motor City Labor League (M-L) https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/mcll-1/intro.htmDying From the Inside: The Decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8n44mvhcdr2ZWY4MDhhZmYtYzEwYy00NmJhLTkzMWYtM2U5YTYxMjIwZmU0/view?hl=en

The third and final part of our discussion on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and what came after them. We also spend some time exploring the exciting world of "just-in-time" manufacturing and logistics and their vulnerable bottlenecks. But first Bryant explores the Aukerman Podcast Shared Universe Theory.Drop us a line: carsandcomrades@gmail.comFollow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/https://twitter.com/CarsAndComradeshttps://www.facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Podcast-101908671824034 https://www.hexbear.net/u/CarsAndComradesAll music from the free album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanalandSources: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dyingFinally Got The NewsBlack Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnick https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061656124/viewer#page/2/mode/2upThe Political Line of the Motor City Labor League (M-L) https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/mcll-1/intro.htmDying From the Inside: The Decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8n44mvhcdr2ZWY4MDhhZmYtYzEwYy00NmJhLTkzMWYtM2U5YTYxMjIwZmU0/view?hl=en

Saladin Muhammad argues in an article titled Black Workers for Justice, Twenty-year of Struggle, in Against the Current that: “The national oppression of African Americans in the U.S. South makes Black workers in the South the most exploited section of the U.S. industrial working class. Black Workers for Justice [BWFJ] thus bases its trade union and political perspectives on the principle of the centrality of the Black working class.” “The struggle against racism, for political power and self-determination for African descendant people are key aspects of this principle in forging the unity of the Southern and U.S. working class. BWFJ has tried to create an identity, confidence and political presence of the Black worker and trade union organization in the U.S. South.” BWFJ believes that the struggle against African American national oppression must take on sharper Black working-class and internationalist features. It must put forward a perspective for, and be active in building, a strong rank-and-file democratic and radical labor movement in the U.S. South” [Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice, Twenty-years of Struggle, Against the Current, No. 101, November/December 2002]. With this, Saladin Muhammad, firmly situates Black Workers for Justice in the continuity and long arc of Black liberation movements that center the Black working class/workers, such as, but not limited to: Ad Hoc. Committee of Concerned Black Steel Workers; the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement; League of Revolutionary Black Workers, to name a few. What you will hear next is Pt. II of our conversation with Baba Saladin Muhammad. Be sure to tap into Pt. I to pick up the flow of our conversation! Saladin Muhammad is an organizer, theoretician, writer. He published a number of articles that explore issues ranging from exposing the structural and systemic racism in labor to ways to understand the interdependence of human rights and Black internationalism. Saladin Muhammad is the co-founder and national chair of Black Workers for Justice and until his retirement, he was an international representative for the United Electrical Workers [UEW]. His praxis has been forged in Black freedom work for than three decades. The idea is not to replicate, but I understand there is a path. To see that there is a way. A way – a genealogy... Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native/indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana; and Ayiti; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Listen intently. Think deeply. Act accordingly. Enjoy the program!

Auto manufacturers in Detroit in the 1960s were among the largest private employers of Black workers. In 1969, black auto workers created the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In this episode, Jerome Scott, a founding member of the LRBW, tells us about its motivations and accomplishments, why it was Black workers who began these revolutionary union movements, and how highly they valued political education and analysis. Jerome Scott is a member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and a founding director of Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide. He is a founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Further reading: https://daily.jstor.org/league-revolutionary-black-workers/ https://daily.jstor.org/the-detroit-rebellion/ https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dying

Labor for Palestine was launched in April 2004 by New York City Labor Against the War and Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition to reclaim the legacy of working class solidarity with Palestine in the United States, as reflected in groundbreaking statements by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969, and wildcat strikes against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership’s support for Israel in 1973. In this episode, we spoke with Labor For Palestine organizers Suzanne Adely who is the Co-Director for the Food Chain Workers Alliance and President-Elect of the National Lawyers Guild, and Michael Letwin who is a public defender in New York City and former President of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325. In this conversation, we discuss: The recent general strike in Palestine and about work conditions for Palestinians; What is Labor for Palestine and why is it misleading to frame the violence as between two conflicting parties; What led to the recent violence; and Why organized labor should get involved in this struggle.  You can follow Labor for Palestine work through the following links: https://laborforpalestine.net  https://twitter.com/labor4palestine  https://www.facebook.com/LaborForPalestine  https://laborforpalestine.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Labor-for-Palestine-Challenging-US-Labor-Zionism.pdf  ABOUT EMLab Empathy Media Lab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, activists, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class everywhere. Solidarity forever.  Website - https://www.empathymedialab.com/  All Links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab    #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong  

If you’re not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting www.patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On this solo episode, Dan reads several sections from Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, a history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and discusses what we can learn from a criminally under-analyzed movement. The League represented an advanced attempt to unify the class struggle on the shop floor with social struggles in broader society, and a powerful pushback against entrenched bureaucratic business friendly union leadership. The first in a future series of deep dive 'Overtime' episodes into labor history, here we examine what about the League’s practice worked, what didn’t, the historical context in which the movement took place, and what parallels can be drawn to struggles today. Finally Got The News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGfZBaFHwo Join the discord: http://discord.gg/tDvmNzX

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we have the honor and privilege to talk with the person who most directly shaped our commitment to movement, humanity, and liberation: the inimitable Kesho Scott. A former Black Panther and longtime professor of Sociology and American Studies at Grinnell College, Kesho breaks down the stages of mentorship, the foundations of a humanizing mentorship relationship, her own experience being mentored by Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs, and so much more. The conversation was too good to cut, so we're dropping the first half this week and will have the second half next week. Levitate with us! SHOW NOTES Grace Lee Boggs - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272590/the-next-american-revolution Jimmy Boggs - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748147.Revolution_And_Evolution_In_The_Twentieth_Century Angela Davis - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2021/1/14/episode-270-angela-davis Stokely Carmichael - https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/ Walter Rodney - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde Exterminate All the Brutes - https://www.hbo.com/exterminate-all-the-brutes Republic of New Afrika - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_New_Afrika League of Revolutionary Black Workers - https://www.revolutionaryblackworkers.org/ Gloria Anzaldúa - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gloria-e-anzaldua Huey Newton - https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/huey-p-newton-born/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

The third and final part of our discussion on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and what came after them.  We also spend some time exploring the exciting world of "just-in-time" manufacturing and logistics and their vulnerable bottlenecks.  But first Bryant explores the Aukerman Podcast Shared Universe Theory. Drop us a line:carsandcomrades@gmail.comFollow us on social media:https://www.instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/https://twitter.com/CarsAndComradeshttps://www.facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Podcast-101908671824034https://www.hexbear.net/u/CarsAndComrades All music from the free album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanalandSources:Detroit: I Do Mind Dyinghttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dyingFinally Got the Newshttps://vimeo.com/401191043Black Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnickhttps://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061656124/viewer#page/2/mode/2upThe Political Line of the Motor City Labor League (M-L)https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/mcll-1/intro.htmDying From the Inside: The Decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workershttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8n44mvhcdr2ZWY4MDhhZmYtYzEwYy00NmJhLTkzMWYtM2U5YTYxMjIwZmU0/view?hl=en

Part two of our discussion on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.Brandon also explores the ideologies of Anarcho-Stalinism and Marxism-Bidenism.Part 3 will be out as soon as we're done editing it (hopefully before next week)Drop us a line:carsandcomrades@gmail.comFollow us on social media:https://www.instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/https://twitter.com/CarsAndComradeshttps://www.facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Podcast-101908671824034https://www.hexbear.net/u/CarsAndComrades All music from the free album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanalandSources:Detroit: I Do Mind Dyinghttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dyingFinally Got the Newshttps://vimeo.com/401191043Black Workers in Revolt Pamphlet, by Robert Dudnickhttps://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061656124/viewer#page/2/mode/2upThe Political Line of the Motor City Labor League (M-L)https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/mcll-1/intro.htmDying From the Inside: The Decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workershttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8n44mvhcdr2ZWY4MDhhZmYtYzEwYy00NmJhLTkzMWYtM2U5YTYxMjIwZmU0/view?hl=en

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with journalist, educator, author, and activist Herb Boyd. Our conversation with Boyd centers around his book Black Detroit, with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th Century, leading up to the development of The League of Revolutionary Black Workers.  In this part of the conversation Boyd talks about moving to Detroit, the strains of Black progressive and radical politics going on at the time. We ask about the importance of figures like Malcolm X and MLK to Black organizers in Detroit. Boyd shares some of the issues facing Black workers in the working class city of Detroit at the height of its relationship to automobile manufacturing, and the contradictions that arose in the union movements for Black workers specifically. Boyd also shares some personal history of key Black organizers, activists and politicians in this era, leading up to the Rebellion of 1967.

This is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with journalist, educator, author and activist Herb Boyd. In this part of the conversation we talk more about how Boyd and other politicized students used the 1967 Rebellion to launch Black Studies at Wayne State University, and develop it into a radical space for the political and cultural education of Black students living in Detroit and often working and organizing on campus, and in the automobile plants. We also ask Boyd several questions about the  Revolutionary Union Movements (DRUM, ELRUM, FRUM CADRUM, UPRUM, etc) which came together under the umbrella of The League of Revolutionary Black Workers. We also talk about the importance of newspapers in the League’s analysis and organizing and some of the reasons that the League eventually splintered in different directions.

Marsha Music was born in Detroit and grew up in Highland Park, Michigan - a city within the city of Detroit. She has lived in these two cities her entire life. She is the daughter of legendary pre-Motown record producer, the late Joe Von Battle, and west side Detroit beauty and music lover, the late Shirley Battle. Ms. Music is a self-described "primordial Detroiter," and a "Detroitist". She became an activist in her early teens in the social tumult of the late sixties and was a founding member of the iconic League of Revolutionary Black Workers.  THE DETROITIST is an anthology of poems and stories about Detroit written by a daughter of Detroit. Marsha Music is one of the featured artists performing during the ongoing virtual exhibition, Come Together, at Galerie Camille.  https://marshamusic.wordpress.com/ Galerie Camille: https://galeriecamille.com/upcoming-events  https://www.facebook.com/galeriecamille/  https://www.facebook.com/FADLArt     

On the second Friday evening of each month, ESFL screens a labor history film. In this video ESFL's Peter Rachleff discusses the historical context for "Finally Got the News" with David Colman, Associate Professor of African American History, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and James Robinson, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, Metropolitan State University. This film traces the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. It provides a rare opportunity for African American industrial workers to represent themselves on film and for a self-identified revolutionary organization to provide their own perspective on the past, the present, and the future. The late historian Manning Marable wrote: “The League [of Revolutionary Black Workers] was in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s. The League took the impetus for Black Power and translated it into a fighting program focusing on industrial workers.” Oral historian and filmmaker Dan Georgakas (author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying) wrote: “Ideological in the best sense: it is a film about ideas [and] presents a serious strategy for mass working class action… It speaks of a specific time and specific experiences in terms that will remain relevant as long as working people are not able to control their own lives.” To view the video with closed captioning: YouTube.com/eastsidefreedomlibraryorg

Between the Trumpist insurgency at the U.S. Capitol, Democrats' Senate wins in Georgia, COVID-19, and the internal battles raging within both parties, history is moving fast these days. In this episode of “The Marc Steiner Show,” Marc is joined by a lively panel of guests to put these events in their larger historical context and to discuss what lessons from history we must examine to understand the rise of the militant right and the task ahead for leftists of all stripes.Today's panel includes Jerome Scott, veteran revolutionary activist, labor organizer, author, and founding member of both the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide; Jacqueline Luqman, co-host of By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik, editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, and longtime TRNN host and contributor; and John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of "The Pandemic Pivot."

Reny and Ali speak with Darryl "Waistline" Mitchell - cofounder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Communist Labor Party - as he walks us through the history of 1960s Detroit and the conditions that set the tone for Black freedom movements.

This week we bring you a two part series on the American black radical tradition. Joined by educator and activist Kazembe Balagun we discuss some of the fundamental questions of black marxism and revolution leading to the current day. In this episode we talk about the Haitian revolution, Harriet Tubman, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Harry Haywood, CLR James and the Johnson Forest Tendency, James and Grace Lee Boggs, DRUM, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Black Panther Party. Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/ Other referenced texts: CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs - Facing Reality https://libcom.org/files/James%20-%20Facing%20Reality.pdf Finally Got the News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FarGHAO7h-c Excellent analysis of Huey P Newton's conception of intercommunalism: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-the-late-theorizations-of-huey-p-newton-chief-theoretician-of-the-black-panther-party/ https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-1974/ Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis - https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davispoprprblli.html Viewpoint Mag reader on whiteness: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/08/05/beyond-guilt-and-privilege-abolishing-the-white-race/ Closing song: Joe L. Carter - Please Mr. Foreman

This is part 1 of our new reading series on race in Australia and the struggle against it. Over the next 3 or so months Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be reading A New Britannia by Humphrey McQueen, White Nation by Ghassan Hage and The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.  In this episode we set out why we are doing this, our thinking at this point in time and briefly discuss what the White Australia Policy was and wasn’t and the whys and whynots. We encourage all our listeners to read with us and join us in the discussion. Correction: I mention Nelson Peery as being a member of DRUM/League of Revolutionary Black Workers. He wasn’t. You can find an interview with him about his life and works here As for DRUM and the League you can find an interview with Darryl ‘Waistline’ Mitchell and Donald Abdul Roberts here You should read Hard Crackers and its recent offshoot (split?) Gasoline and Grits too Insurgent Notes has a special issue dedicate to the life and works of Noel Ignatiev Music by Wyatt Waddell

In this episode the Foley sisters talk about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a group that formed after the urban rebellions of 1967 and tried to form revolutionary organizations based on the power of the working class.

Episode Notes The Newest Episode, #50 @Pipercarter Podcast, on @DetroitisDifferent: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers Show Topic: This week, @PiperCarter has a dynamic discussion With Alonzo Chandler, Russell Jackson, and William Mitchell about the origins and their dedication to The League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The native Detroiters share stories, perspectives, and wisdom about the Past, Present and Future of Black Culture in the American Society. Weekly Featured Music: Danni Cassette - Banana & Alexis Allon - Closer Listen + Subscribe NOW: Apple Podcast | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify Piper Carter is the founder of 'We Found Hip-hop.' Advocate for Women in Hip-hop, Hip-hop culture, Detroit advocacy, Artistry, and Youth Dilla Day Detroit.

Episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s, in conversation with Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit and former member of the group, and Dan Georgakas, author of Detroit I Do Mind Dying. Bonus audio with Herb about Detroit’s black history available exclusively for our patreon supporters here: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory This is a short history of the League: https://libcom.org/library/league-revolutionary-black-workers MORE INFORMATION – Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin is the definitive book on the league, available here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dying – Black Detroit, by Herb Boyd is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Detroit-Peoples-History-Self-Determination/dp/0062346628 – This is an archive of content about the League: https://libcom.org/tags/league-revolutionary-black-workers – Finally Got the News – a documentary made at the time about the group can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2Wr-odBJg FOOTNOTES – Facing Reality – archive by and about them here: https://libcom.org/tags/facing-reality – James Boggs – this is a great text by Boggs about his experiences: https://libcom.org/library/american-revolution-pages-negro-workers-notebook – Grace Lee Boggs – archive by and about her here: https://libcom.org/tags/grace-lee-boggs – Martin Glaberman – archive by and about him here: https://libcom.org/tags/martin-glaberman – The 1967 Detroit rebellion – https://libcom.org/history/detroit-riot-1967 – Bristol Radical History Group – here is the video of the talk with General Baker: https://www.brh.org.uk/site/events/dagenham-drum-and-the-league-of-black-revolutionary-workers/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – Edited by Abbey Little – Music used under fair use is Please Mr. Foreman by Joe Lee Carter. Buy it online here: https://www.amazon.com/Please-Mr-Foreman/dp/B06WWGLJ4B/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534344007&sr=8-1&keywords=Please+Mr.+Foreman++-+Joe+Lee+Carter+-

Part 2 of our Organizing 101 episode! Shamus Cooke is back with Garrett & I. We talk about the #OccupyICEPDX camp, how to focus demands from an Occupy camp, when the Direct Action Alliance went to City Council, unions, DRUM & the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and ol' George Meany. This one has me do a _lot_ of self-owns on mic and you all should enjoy that. - - - - Listen to Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/organizing-101-part-1 - - - - Go here to find out more info about the Portland OccupyICE camp: https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupyicepdx/ - - - - - Show notes and links here: http://goo.gl/7r3P9g - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

James Forman was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement. He was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. As the executive secretary of SNCC from 1961 to 1966, Forman played a significant role in the freedom rides, the Albany movement, the Birmingham campaign, and the Selma to Montgomery marches. After the 1960s, Forman spent the rest of his adult life organizing black people around issues of social and economic equality. He also taught at American University and other major institutions. He wrote several books documenting his experiences within the movement and his evolving political philosophy including Sammy Younge Jr.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement (1969), The Making of Black Revolutionaries (1972 and 1997) and Self Determination: An Examination of the Question and Its Application to the African American People (1984). The New York Times called him "a civil rights pioneer who brought a fiercely revolutionary vision and masterly organizational skills to virtually every major civil rights battleground in the 1960s Source Link https://archive.org/details/DrBenjaminSpockInBerkeley-1968 Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions Spock, Berkeley, draft, resistance, Vietnam, Pacifica, Audiobooks, Business, Comedy, Entertainment, Learning, News, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, Science, Sports, Storytelling, Technology, America, History, BigBrainPod, PublicAccessPod, Podcast, newsreel, Motivational, Education, Footage downloaded and edited by PublicAccessPod Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJb

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OTG-MAY19-2017MONO.mp3 On today’s show, "The F-Word," our monthly discussion on fascism. This month’s guest is Jerome Scott, veteran activist, labor organizer and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which organized in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s. And this is the birthday of human rights giant and Muslim minister Malcolm X. Had he not been taken away from us and lived, he would be 92 years old today. We play more excerpts of his speeches.   Also, an important behind-the-scenes thing happening this week that is NOT being covered by the corporate media—is the FCC actually making moves to gut net neutrality, to gut rules that keep the Internet open, free and equally accessible to everyone. There was a big FCC meeting on May 18  to start the nefarious process and an even BIGGER response outside by a rally of demonstrators saying hands off my Internet. More headlines.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OTG-FEB17-2017.mp3 This is the third week of the month when we have our segment "The F-Word," exploring fascism today. My special guest is Jill Stein, U.S. presidential candidate for the Green Party in 2016 and 2012. I speak to her in advance of her appearance on the program "Next Steps for Independent Politics: Fighting Fascism and Resisting Neoliberalism" Feb. 17, 2017 in Northwest. DC. Headlines on protesters at Netanyahu visit to White House, DAPL and Black History: A Maryland church fights desecration of historic African-American cemetery and Jerome Scott, leader with the the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, visits Howard University.

December 29:The League of Revolutionary Black Workers were not your average superheroes. They were ordinary men, struggling to survive against the odds, against exploitation by white Corporate America. Move to Amend National Leadership member and revolutionary Jerome Scott discusses the League’s history, their contribution to solidarity organizing within Labor Unions, and what lessons from this history can inform today's revolutionaries building the movement for genuine democracy. Don’t miss out on this enlightening discussion!

December 29:The League of Revolutionary Black Workers were not your average superheroes. They were ordinary men, struggling to survive against the odds, against exploitation by white Corporate America. Move to Amend National Leadership member and revolutionary Jerome Scott discusses the League’s history, their contribution to solidarity organizing within Labor Unions, and what lessons from this history can inform today's revolutionaries building the movement for genuine democracy. Don’t miss out on this enlightening discussion!

Listen to this special broadcast of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program continues the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the intervention of Malcolm X in Africa and the Middle East. Also we will pay tribute to the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. (1941-2014), a founder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers who passed away in Detroit on May 18. Baker was eulogized on May 24 at UAW Local 600. Our special guest for this segment is Norman (Otis) Richmond of Toronto, a broadcast journalist and former member of the League.